(226 quotes found)
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
“Even the upper end of the riverbelieves in the ocean.”
William Stafford
“You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.”
Mitch Albom
“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.”
Christina Aguilera
“God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.”
William Arthur Ward
“No nation ever had two better friends than we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.”
Will Rogers
“Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.”
Henry Louis Mencken